Obama pressed to step aside for Hillary Clinton

An extraordinary appeal from Democratic Party pollster Patrick Caddell that in order to government effectively President Obama needs to announce he will not run in 2012 so that Hillary Clinton can unite the country as no one else seems able to do to. Read the article

We need to talk about America

Read my article in today’s Sydney Morning Herald about the fault line in America today, a forerunner to a session I will be chairing at the Sydney Writer’s Festival at Sydney Town Hall on Saturday May 22 at 5.30 pm.  For further information and bookings go to www.swf.org.au

The President takes the picture

 

Barack Obama photographs the press

 

 

Yes he could. The US gets health insurance!

And the President was right on the ball, thanking his supporters within hours of the historic vote.  Like many millions of others, I received the following email from him:

Anne –

 

For the first time in our nation’s history, Congress has passed comprehensive health care reform. America waited a hundred years and fought for decades to reach [...]

Tina Brown’s 10 things to stop bitching about

Tina Brown of The Daily Beast gives us a 2010 political Zeitgeist Guide. For instance, why is Obama so cool, not cool that way but so, so detached? And does it matter? (Hint: yes!) Are newspapers being killed by the Internet?  No.  Read it here

Yes we can… but so far, Obama hasn’t

Read my article on President Barack Obama in today’s Sydney Morning Herald

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